The most appropriate term for mystic consciousness, or transpersonal awareness, is “clear awareness.”  This is an awareness that ‘initially” is never aware of the functioning aspect of cognitive awareness.  This often seems confusing or vague to most modern thinkers, but the subject is very clear to most mystics.

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For many reasons, it has always been extremely difficult for most ancient and modern thinkers to understand the difference between thought-based awareness and clear awareness.

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The great saint Buddha once said that “the first desire that man has is the desire to be, and it is also the last desire to disappear.”  At very deep levels of integral consciousness great mystics can see the entire cycle of the journey of the soul - including the intimate details of the first few seconds of the soul’s existence and the last few seconds before the soul dissolves into source consciousness.

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All great mystics experience the creative process in the heavenly regions where the Supreme Consciousness creates a mini-me fractal copy of itself – which is often called the “soul.”  Likewise, fully enlightened mystics are, occasionally, consciously interconnected to all other souls in the cosmos as well as the source, or resting, integral awareness that exists before, during and after each new cosmos.

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For the past 8 thousand years or so the birth of the great mystics have been rare and most of their “ancient wisdom” has been lost.  In many instances it seems that many of these greatly enlightened souls only had a few fully enlightened students. 

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History has shown us as well that their supremely enlightened teachings were usually not properly understood of followed by future generations of teachers and disciples.  Without deep experiences of clear awareness the teachers that followed these great mystics often created great “worldly” religions instead.  

Clear awareness is true “transpersonal awareness” because it is totally beyond mind-body, “personal” awareness. 

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In the first bubble or field of clear awareness there is absolutely no consciousness, of any kind, of the body or the mind.  Thus, there is no vague awareness or evidence of (mind-body) thought, emotions, desires, fears, memories, imagination or subject-object based perspective.

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Instead, there is a clear, vibrant awareness that is infused with a timeless sense of wonder, freedom, peace, oneness, equipoise, love, bliss, divine presence and a totality-of-consciousness.  In this first bubble of awareness the experiences of awareness, freedom, peace,  oneness, equipoise and bliss are at least ten times greater than any other similar experience in the mind.

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There is, however, a very subtle “whisper” of self-existence as a soul

Clear awareness can also be called “integral awareness” because there are many different levels of clear awareness that can be experienced at the same time after a fully enlightened soul has reached the highest level of source, or “God”, consciousness.

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Every great mystic knows, from experience, that every experience beyond the dissolution of the soul is a permanent experience, of  Supreme Consciousness that is never totally forgotten.  Moreover, after abiding – for at least several weeks – in Source Consciousness, that awareness is always active and present at the core of all other levels/regions of consciousness.   In fact, it becomes impossible to abide in, or to sustain the lower levels of consciousness if you are not, at the same time, also abiding in source consciousness.

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Source consciousness thus subsumes all other lower levels of consciousness.  While walking around in the world, a fully enlightened mystic is often experiencing multiple levels of consciousness at the same time.  In this mode of experience the mystic simply allows everything to happen naturally, effortlessly and automatically.  The mystic can watch as the mind effortlessly responds to worldly events by itself.  The mystic will be aware of what is truly happening even though most other people will be totally unaware. 

The ancient Chinese mystics called this Wu Wei or effortless action.  In the time of Krishna it was called akarma-karma – or actionless action.  Likewise, Buddha referred to this as “becoming the stream winner.”  Ancient Christians often referred to this as “being in Spirit” or “staying in Christ consciousness.”  Saint Kabir called this “Sahaj (natural) Yoga.”  Guru Nanak referred to this as floating in blissful equipoise in the “Court of the Lord.”

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This is how and why the greatest mystics, and saints, have been able to “live in this world without being of it!”  It also the state of existence where most of great miracles happen.

Roughly speaking, there are 22 different levels of clear, transpersonal awareness.  As the soul moves inward through these different levels, or regions, of integral consciousness the core experiences of clear-consciousness (ie: wonder, freedom, peace, oneness, equipoise, love, bliss, divine presence and a totality-of-consciousness) become much greater than similar experiences at a lower level of consciousness.  By the time that one reaches source consciousness, these core-experiences are – at least - thousands of times greater than any other similar experience in the mind.

As mystics travel the inward path they also experience and gain many new aspects of clear awareness.  At the highest levels of transpersonal awareness they also have “divine or godly” experiences.

The higher regions are also truly beyond the need for a mind or a body.  This is often a hard thing for mindful, or even spiritually mindful seekers to understand or to believe.   However, the proof is in the experience.  Contrary to the belief of many scientists, pure consciousness creates the mind – and not the other way around.

The simple answer is “NO.”

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Great mystics are very rare.  In personal conversations with other highly advanced mystics, it was clear that we had all come to the same conclusions.  We all believe that less than 90% of the key saints, leaders and authors of today’s different religious and mystic paths have never even reached the first level of clear awareness – the eye center.

Moreover, we all firmly believe that far less than 1% of these “saints” have ever reached or learned how to abide in the highest regions of transpersonal, mystic, consciousness.

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Most of these saints are sincere and are lovingly “doing God’s work,” but that does not mean that they have begun to travel deeply within the inward path of clear, or mystic, awareness.  Their teaching may significantly help a lot of spiritually minded people; but at the same time their teachings lack the in-depth comprehension and definitions of the different levels of transpersonal awareness.